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New year, new books read thread. I’m off to a very slow not great start.

The books I read from January through March: Absolution by @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social, The Wood at Midnight by Susanna Clarke, Polostan by Neal Stephenson, and a small pile of books by @premeemohamed.com (not pictured is the audiobook version of Apple-Tree Throne). Books are great.

Derek Kın̈sman

@derekkinsman.com

15 Mar

Finished the fourth book in Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series. It remains cozy and entertaining.

Derek Kın̈sman

@derekkinsman.com

15 Mar

I don’t know man. @premeemohamed.com is just excellent and you should read this novella. It feels like an old timey fairy tale or folklore with a sprinkle of “new weird”. Good way to spend an afternoon. Two thumbs up from this guy.

Derek Kın̈sman

@derekkinsman.com

Finished “Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird” by Agustina Bazterrica. Deeply upset that I am unable to pull a new Bazterrica book off the shelf. Anyway, two thumbs up. I’m pretty sure these thumbs are mine and that they are indeed thumbs.

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Derek Kın̈sman

@derekkinsman.com

16 Apr

So happy I finally read Creation Lake. Cool spy novel, but with a writing style similar to authors like Stephen Graham Jones. And so much feminine rage. Two thumbs up.

Derek Kın̈sman

@derekkinsman.com

10 June

Continuing on with slow reading this year. Finally finished B. Catling’s “The Erstwhile”. It’s the sequel to “The Vorrh”. I continue to enjoy this story. I continue to hate soft touch covers.

Derek Kın̈sman

@derekkinsman.com

19 June

Two thumbs way up. Historical fiction with dashes of horror and fantasy. Lots of environmentalism. Maybe if you liked The Terror and The Lighthouse you might also like this.